Alpine: multiple wpa_supplicant packages: security update to 2.9-r4 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400493

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 allow an incorrect indication of disconnection in
certain situations because source address validation is mishandled. This is a denial of service that
should have been prevented by PMF (aka management frame protection). The attacker must send a crafted
802.11 frame from a location that is within the 802.11 communications range. (CVE-2019-16275)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400493

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16275

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16275

Detections

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